Actually, not that far offline. I think it all depends on how you define e-commerce. If you literally mean online shopping and financial transactions directly online, I'm pretty torn. It depends on if shipping costs increase the way commercial passenger costs have increased. If UPS, USPS and FedEx start raising rates, it might make "going to the store" more tolerable.
On the other hand, going to the store means driving and paying for gas. In the end all products are going to cost more due to increases in logistics costs. Now, if you generally mean IT development. I think this is a good thing for us especially in collaboration software. Since so much has been invested in distributed teams, and the costs of getting people together are so high, it will be even more important to have the right tools and services to make telepresences practical across all sorts of organizations (size & type). That's my initial thoughts. -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31262 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
